7 Feb 2000
Blitz v Accident Compensation Corporation
- Citation
- [2000] NZACC 20
- Court
- District Court
On the evidence the appellants did not establish on the balance of probabilities that their fibromyalgia was caused or meaningfully contributed to by a workplace injury or biomechanical work process, and where psychological or non-physical stressors are the more probable cause s7(4) excludes cover; therefore the appeals are disallowed.
- Fibromyalgia (fms)
- Gradual process injury
- Causation
- Section 7 (arci act 1992)
- Section 7(4) non-physical stress exclusion
- Jurisdiction under s73 and s67a